hammer beam

noun

1. either of a pair of short horizontal beams that project from opposite walls to support arched braces and struts

Example Sentences

Hammer Beam Roof Perpendicular Roofing Westminster Chapel, in addition to the characteristic fan-tracery roof already referred to, has an exceptionally beautiful chevet with five apsidal chapels, a finely vaulted nave, aisles, and cloisters, in which Decorated and Perpendicular details are harmoniously combined.

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In some Perpendicular buildings, as in the Churches of S. Stephen and S. Peter's Mancroft at Norwich, ornate open timber roofs, enriched with beautiful carving, take the place of those of stone, and in the final or Tudor phase of the style such roofs, to which the name of hammer beam has been given, and of which those of Wolsey's Great Hall at Hampton Court and of Westminster Hall are good examples, were almost as elaborate as the fan-tracery variety.

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The acme of all constructions, in which strength, beauty, and capacity for ornamentation are blended, is the Hammer Beam Truss.

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A is the hammer beam, and C the pendant post.

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A form of roof truss in which the collar between rafters is used as the thrust bearing for the ribs which project up from the hammer beam.

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